[Renfrew]

[Rud31]

A million people are ordered to evacuate Nagoya because Kyushu is getting all kinds of flooding right now.

edit: I am an idiot who doesn't read the second language is mildly fluent at. Post corrected
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[sawtooth]

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Davis-order-9-21-11.pdf
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[Mr. Mechanical]

justice system more like injustice system
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[ionustron]

welp... he's executed.


Capitol punishment, Palestinian statehood push, yet the New Facebook will prolly set people off most.

[Swimmy]

He's not the first, and he won't be the last.

I don't know, I've been trying to think of something more interesting to say, but that's all there is. Various state governments execute innocent people on a regular basis, and the people who enable and defend such actions get to be popular presidential candidates.

I disagree with Balko on one major point, though. The ability to execute is not at all the most awesome power our government has. It pales in comparison to our ability to bomb the fuck out of innocent people worldwide.
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[psiga]

Keep calm and carry on.. We may be about a month away from the next financial collapse. The three sources that I've found most consistent over the past few years are all simultaneously giving their warnings:

GEAB:

"...it’s the solution to the public debt problems in some Euroland countries which will enable this reaction to reach critical mass, after which nothing is controllable; but the bulk of the fuel that will drive the reaction and turn it into a real global shock (1) is found in the United States. Since July 2011 we have only started on the process that led to this situation: the worst is ahead of us and very close!"

Denninger:

"Are you prepared yet?

No?

Well I'm sorry, because it's too late now.

I mean really, honestly too late."

Reinhardt: Legatus Annual Pilgrimage (significant market events often happen about a week after those), Oct 23rd (significant number, if you're into that shit), to be held in both England and Rome simultaneously (...significant locations for the catholic church, obviously).


There's not much that we can do, really. I doubt that any of us here are trading stocks or anything, so there's no point in saying to cash out your chips really soon and sit on the sidelines for a while. And further, this is not an existential thing like the web bot shenanigans were forecasting, so you shouldn't need to feel much more uncomfortable than you did through the 2008 crash. This is all being orchestrated by delusional, exceptionalistic consortiums of politically-correct folks wearing nice suits; as long as they aren't really plotting to starve off a chunk of the population and spiral us into a dark age or something, it'll all smooth itself out in abstruse political ways that are as far beyond our control as the causes of the crisis in the first place.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/22/faster-than-light-particles-neutrinos

[Mr. Mechanical]

Apparently there are some protests going down on Wall Street for a few days now. First I'm hearing about it.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/
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[psiga]

Yeh, snubbed from the start. There has been coverage of it, but mostly to say that it's the usual anonarchist shenanigans rather than a significant protest. Think of the classic prohibition protest versus the million marijuana march, you know? A good litmus test: Would you show up to a career-worthy job interview dressed like this?
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[Mr. Mechanical]

So, Libya.

Prisons grow as rebels pursue their enemies and questions arise about the missing

Libya Rebels Dumping Hundreds of Bodies in ‘Pro-Gadhafi’ Cemetery

Libyan Rebels Rounding Up Black Migrants, Raped, Forced to Chant Allah Ackbar

Black Africans come under fire in Libya

Sharia Enshrined in Libyan Draft Constitution

But hey I guess it's worth it as long as companies are able to "exploit business opportunities [t]here". No way this whole situation could backfire down the road, right?
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

to be undeservedly fair, establishing/maintaining strong economic relations with Libya is one of the few "civilized" ways that other countries have of keeping the above atrocities/abuses of power in check. It doesn't work very well/often, of course, but the horse-blindered thought counts.

Also, you gotta admit, there's something invigorating and perhaps even refreshing about horrible inhumane violence being passionately enacted by mob rule after years of it trickling down via eccentric government corruption.

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Shiren the Launderer]

Hey, something has been bugging me. You guys are likely familiar with the news story about those American "hikers" imprisoned in Iran, right? Who fucking hikes the Iran-Iraq border? I mean, seriously, those guys have to be spooks. Even Democracy Now! seems to accept their story at face value.

[Takashi]

[Adilegian]

[psiga]

Hey, interesting. The Wall Street occupation has escalated enough to show up on the ticker: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2727299

If the kids pulling the occupation are too unprofessional to net media attention, all it should take is for the New York Cops to act even more unprofessional to compensate for that. Oh hay, thanks for attacking unarmed white girls~




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Yeah, here's my friend Sammy getting pushed, then further assaulted and arrested, while outside on a break from work checking out what was going on outside- ie, not protesting.


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[Mr. Mechanical]

[thestage]

[psiga]

OK?

Oh, I see -- you thought I thought that 'media attention' would mean people paying attention to whatever their message is. I don't even know what their message is. Nobody is going to put a dent in Wall Street except Wall Street: they have a free pass to let their own math do them in.
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[thestage]

I'm fairly certain they don't know what their message is either

[CubaLibre]

I, too, have read the latest Last Psychiatrist post.
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[psiga]

Well that made at least one of us (until I went and read it too).

My position in the last couple posts here has been based on the non-results of previous Anonymous protest-cum-meetups, and the trajectory that their latest op was on from day one; then contrasted that with the past few years that I've been subjecting myself to things like this that I doubt most anons are acquainted with, and viewed it all in the light of whatever my gestalt sense of America's current sociopolitical climate is worth.

Which is a fairly sophisticated sub-process considering how sparse and glib my posts on the matter ended up being. The touch, the feel... of Cynicism.®
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[psiga]

Now it's on getting better, maybe.

(Edit: Actually as I read the distorted signs that the pilots are carrying, I see that the only thing unified about their message is that they want to be paid more to pilot planes. This is still a cry or two away from that prohibition photo, where people of all respectable lines of work were unified in the message of WE WANT BEER; in this case they should be saying SOUND MONEY NOW, but instead they're saying ME ME ME.)
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[Rud31]

BUT THE ALTERNATIVE IS COMMUNISM
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/28/protests?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+salon%2Fgreenwald+%28Glenn+Greenwald%29

[evnvnv]

wake me when the tea party.gets in on this hot protest action
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[remote]

Has this been posted?


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in lighter news


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[sawtooth]

Congratulations everyone, we did it!

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[spectralsound]

Jesus Christ.
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[remote]

Totally stealing this: "I won't complain at this, if they don't complain when I drink a 40 of O.E. at their hanging." And this: "At least the people that will eat you have the courtesy to show their teeth."
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[Mr. Mechanical]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Mr. Mechanical]

http://www.occupytogether.org/

Just found out about this and it turns out there's a meeting in OKC going on right now. I won't be making it tonight but I will definitely keep an eye out for when their next meeting is and go then. Even if it's just 20 people that's something to start with. Y'all should check it out and see if there's anything organizing in a city near you and if not, set something up! You might be surprised how many people show up.
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